Dang!
And we always were told that Al Gore had invented the ski lift. /s
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 â March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer.
In 1918, the Farnsworth family moved to a relative’s 240-acre (1.0 km2) ranch near Rigby, Idaho.
On September 7, 1927, Farnsworth’s image dissector camera tube transmitted its first image, a simple straight line, to a receiver in another room of his laboratory at 202 Green Street in San Francisco.